I recently made the move to Linux and I have decided to document everything that I found usefull for readers to note, if not they’ll serve me when I forget them.

To extend you screen resolution beyond 800×600 when (in KDE) your Desktop Config/ Control Center wont allow you to change up.

Open your terminal window; login as root.
change directory to /etc/X11/

cd /etc/X11/

open XF86Config-4 in your favorite command line editor (mine being pico) but I know that all the fanboys hate it.

pico XF86Config-4

now basically edit the lines:

                Modes           "800x600" "640x480"

adding your monitor/vga limits, something like this:

                Modes           "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

Then all you need to do is: restart X

/etc/init.d/gdm restart

you may have problems with this in which it only stops X and doesn’t restart as such. In such a case.. login as root (as you will be in command line).. and go back to gdm and start it, thusly:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

done!

posted by a-v0id at 8:46 pm & filed under Linux | Comments Off on Extending your Resolution